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I'm the guy talking in the video. Sales is hard. It's the number one thing b2b startups fuck up. I have a pretty pragmatic approach which is hard-learned. Happy to answer any specific questions if you got 'em.

hey everyone, one of the founders here. lmk if you have any questions. big up hn

Fred here, interviewer on this podcast. AMA

...and welcome to the coastal American attitude to service.

This is not acceptable. No matter what you do, be a professional and strive for excellence.

A+++ totally correct.

All I can say is never ever come to America with your bicycle.

hilarious and true.

Yup. Agreed. This was war. Putting young humans whose brains and morality are still in flux into such insane situations = a loss of humanity.

It's more surprising to me the naiveté (which is hard to see as anything other than a put-on in this article) with which we view these events.

Humans do horrible things to other humans in war.

"At least in ski resorts the bystanders can immediately rescue the person" - someone who has never been in or experienced an actual avalanche.

No they can't.

this is clearly not b2b

Note this is not an example of "no network effects". This is the opposite. Both services benefit from the shared network effects. The real question is whether the future market for ridesharing is zero-sum, which seems unlikely looking at analogous markets.

"don't waste 90% of their time doing nothing"

that's an assumption

those people are evil

As did we at Rainforest! It's a nice little detail and a pretty easy hack: https://blog.rainforestqa.com/2014-04-24-howto-gmail-action-...

"I’ve come to realize that “technically true” is a terrible ethical measure for a (non-technical) statement. I should have held myself to a higher standard. I’ve also learned the importance of overwhelming honest"

So true. There is an immense amount of pressure within startups to 'bend the rules', and I think this hits the nail on the head.

"brainwashed to love by the programming hegemony" I don't know what this means but I think I love you.

Like with all these things it's a trade-off. If security is important to you above everything else, then yeah, host it yourself and spend the extra time. But this is true for only a tiny % of startups.

Also, you're assuming that you're better able to secure this stuff than they are. Which doesn't seem obvious to me.

This is why having a solid CI setup is crucial.

Is this a legit Show HN? It looks more like an article from the New York times to me.

yes, yes

Awesome!

Thanks! Where would you suggest?

Rainforest QA (YC '12), San Francisco - H1B, FULL-TIME, REMOTE and INTERN are all welcome. Full-stack and front-end hackers.

Hi HN! We're a small (6 person) startup working on making every developer happier and more productive. We're doing that by building a beautiful, simple way to do QA. Yeah, that's right. Sounds impossible doesn't it? We like those kind of challenges :)

We are an engineering-focused company and if you're obsessed with code quality and developer productivity, and want to work on a product that you yourself use every day then you should speak with us.

https://jobs.lever.co/rainforest

Awesome.

RainforestQA - San Francisco, CA (or REMOTE) - Full Time engineer

We are building a better way to test software. We are well funded, have rapidly growing revenue and paying customer list, and we have nontrivial technical challenges to overcome.

We're a small team of 4 looking for two more founding engineers.

Learn more here: https://jobs.lever.co/rainforest/72beda5c-d340-41aa-97a3-2f0...

[Component](https://github.com/component/component). That is all.

Not true. In the UK the "NUS Black Students’ campaign represents the largest constituency of Black students in Europe and students of African, Asian, Arab and Caribbean descent, at a local and national level on all issues affecting Black students."

http://www.nus.org.uk/en/who-we-are/how-we-work/black-studen...

so happy support for video is finally here. I use the shit out of Loom.

Thanks Kirill! Great to have Scoutzie on Rainforest.

It's a false assertion that Soylent prescribes this dystopian future. It's about replacing TRANSACTIONAL eating. Not ALL eating.

Fairly simple you'd think, yet this is the main point that all the detractors seem to have... and it's not something that Soylent is pushing at all.

As a long time beta user I have a bunch of problems with this piece:

- the Oakland space was a temporary location while they were iterating on the beta. Soylent is not manufactured there.

- all the journalists writing about Soylent seem to attribute to Rob stuff that he doesn't actually say: namely that you should only consume Soylent all the time. The point of Soylent is that it replaces transactional eating and makes me healthier. It's not about replacing the eating I do for fun.

- Soylent is a technology company. It's not just positioning. They are iterating towards finding an exponentially better way to do transactional eating using technology. That's the definition of a tech company.